UN: Gaza Won't Be 'Liveable' By 2020 Unless Urgent Action Is Taken

Gaza has no airport or sea port, and the border is
dangerous.Gaza
in 2020

A new United Nations report states that Gaza will no longer be
"liveable" by 2020 unless action is taken to address issues of
water sanitation and supply, electricity, health services and
schooling.

The report
details how the population of 1.6 million—51
percent of whom are under the age of 18—is set to
increase to around 2.1 million by 2020 while
essential services fail to meet rising
demand.

The U.N. notes that tens of thousands of housing units
are needed today, and in eight years the
Palestinian enclave will need double the supply of electricity,
at least 440 more schools, 800 more hospital beds and
more than 1,000 additional doctors.

Gaza is heavily reliant on intensive trade,
and the report notes that "its economy is fundamentally unviable
under present circumstances" because it's "kept alive" through
external funding and its illegal tunnel
economy.

Since 2007 Gaza has been under the control of Hamas—an
armed and Iran-backed political movement considered by the West
as a terror organization which rejects Israel's right to
exist—and Israel has enforced a blockade that it says prevents
the flow of weapons to Hamas.